Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-11-05
w. c. T. U. COLUMN.
Edited and Compiled by the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.
Campaign Falsities.

Ell from Maine TO CALIFORNIA TWO
more most misleading statements
about our National President, which
she denies in the following interview
in the Boston Advertiser of October
IL. We urge local workers to
n~eutralize the campaign virus by in
serting what she says in their local
press. 1t seems cruel that special eff
fort should have been made to scat
ter these falsehoods in South Carolina,
to annoy Mrs. Chaplin, who is work.
ing up her state convention where
Miss Willard is soon to speak. In
South Carolina the heading Of article
was, "PracticdI Working of Women's
Rights-MisS Willard and her Brass
Band" We submit that our work
ers should do their utmost to defend
our president from these constantly
recurring assaults.
The Boston Daily Advertiser gives
this statement of the affair:
"On seeing the dispatch in which
the temperance people of Elmira, N.
Y, are accused of discourtesy toward
Senator Hiscock at the county fair,
held in that city October 5, Miss Will
ard, who is now in Boston, states to
the Boston Advertiser that she went
to the fair grounds at the hour ap-
pointed for her address, having no
knowledge that any other person
was to speak, and no intimation that
she would be met at the gate by a
brass understanding that never
before occurred in her experience.
"On arriving at the auditorium she
was told that another speaker had the
floor, upon which she said, Then let
us go in and listen to him. This she
did, and can testify that so far as she
knows, no one interrupted the sena-
tors address while she was there.
At its close there were calls for Miss
Willard, who went forward with the
ladies', met Senator Hiscock on the
platform, and exchangeda few friend
ly and courteous words with him,
after which the temperance meeting
was held under the auspices of the
w. G. Il. U. 1t is probable that the
band may have disturbed the meet
ing for a minute or two, but for this
Miss Willard was in no wise respon-
sible.
"The explanation ofthis widely cir.
culated and false report is twofold:
81. There was a misrepresentation
between the managers of the fair and
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union as to the hour fixed for Miss
Wizards address, Senator Hiscock
occupying the time they had sup
posed for weeks previous was allotted
to Miss Willard.
"2. New York is in the midst of an
exciting political campaign, in which
the Prohibitionists are an ominous
factor, and General Hiscock is a Re
publican.
SIN the same connection, Mis-;
Willard stated that the Associated
Press telegram sent out on the even
ing she made the annual address be
fore the Ohio w. C. T. U. at Spring
field, October 6, declared that she
had lauded the Republican party
and predicted its success in 1892
whereas her laudation and prediction
referred to the Prohibition party
Union Signal.
Girls, when the time comes tina
the young man who now shares hi
time in your company and the sa
loon; who jokes about Temperance
in your presence, and takes a glas
socially now and then, is made Il
feel that these things cannot be i
you are to be his companion at party
ride or church that good societ!
cannot tolerate these things in it
members; in short, that this kind o
man is questionable and unpopular
then alsohol will tremhle on it
throne, and the liquor traffic will
hide its %cancerous face.
The United States Treasury receive
S3,4S4 dollars a day from one distill
cry.
Shall temperate men continue tn
temperate use of strong drink, ant
thus keep open the door to intempel
ance, idleness, dissipation, drunken
ness, poverty, wretchedness ant
death F.; or shall they forbear, and thu
shut the door against these evils fol-
ever" 81 speak as unto wise men,
Politeness.